+1 on all the advice so far.
I use separate partitions for /home on all my home machines.
Ubuntu and pretty much all other distros offer an optional install path that
allows you to choose to mount some other drive or partition as /home.
Just be sure to uncheck the "format" option!
With a 500GB
Seconding Stephen's recommendations.
Regarding that last operation of editing configuration files: "meld" is
your friend. Also, I comment each manual change in a config file with
easily-located text: my username in CAPS and a brief reason for the
change. Totally old-school configuration manage
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Charles E. Nadeau wrote:
> Would it be possible to install Precise, from a DVD, on top of the actual
> Maverick install while preserving the content of /home, /etc and /var/log?
> i.e. without using "do-release-upgrade". Can I avoid another install from
> scratch?
I won't consider doing a upgrade because 13.10 is not a Long term Support
release I would wait for 14.04(Trusty Tahr) April 2014
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> On Nov 1, 2013, at 10:56 AM, "Charles E. Nadeau"
> wrote:
>
> Good evening,
>
> I have at home a server still running Ubuntu Maverick server.
Good evening,
I have at home a server still running Ubuntu Maverick server. I know
this is very old but it is very stable: It survived a move across the
Pacific and I've had uptime up to 200 days: I only turn it off when we
go on holidays.
I tried in the past to upgrade it to Natty and Oneiric
